Slacko64 - 64 bit Puppy - 6 Feb 2014

[jamesbond]

But when I tried to enter static IP in classic network wizard

Missing binaries. Download the attached file, then do "tar -xf bins.tar.gz -C /" and you should be good (I think).

[spandey]

Did a frugal install to core2duo pc and it Rocks !!!
Thank you for this 64bit Puppy.

It will be nice to have suspend option in Shutdown menu.

[L18L]

Did a dd to /dev/sdd it does not rock on ASRock AD2550-ITX.

time xorgwizard
0.1sec

no X.

[Jim1911]

Hi Mick,

I've just been lurking in the forum and discovered your latest Slacko64. It's impressive and is working great on my system. Of course, I haven't yet tried the Nvidia driver.

I used your getlibreoffice pet to install the latest Libre Office which is working fine. Also, discovered that Fatdog's Bibletime program works fine.

Hope that you are planning on adding a Wine capability so that some Windows 32 bit programs can run. I tried Fatdog's version which did not work.

Thanks again for your super distribution which continues to improve.

Jim

System: BFG NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS 512MB, Asus P6T Motherboard, Intel core i7-920 (8MB Cache, 2.66 GHz), DDR3 3GB 1333MHz ram, Pioneer DVR-2910 DVD+-RW Dual Layer Burner, Realtek ALC1200 Audio, HP Photosmart C5280 All-in-One

[01micko]

Thanks for reports

It's still early days. Obviously xorgwizard is broken due to the lack of ddcprobe which I have found and will be in the next. The goal of the next version is to get all bins and apps that are in standard slacko working and accounted for. It will still be alpha but then I have to get back to 32 bit for awhile. I've had some time constraints lately so haven't had the productivity I would have liked to this point.

Cheers

[slick-puppy]

For the life of me though I can not get it to boot when trying to do a full install on the hard drive though:

"Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init="

Thanks for your work!!

What boot loader are you using?
How did you make the boot menu entry for the full install?

I tried my existing grub that came with the latest linux mint i have installed and it did not recognize any os system on my slacko-64 install partition with a sudo update-grub. Tried by installing grub from inside universal installer while booted in slack-64 cd and it make a menu entry in grub; but it produced the same above error . Tried grub4dos that was on my precise 5.7.1 full install and it recognized the os but produced the above error. I tried what was suggested for the entry in boot menu by universal installer in slack64 in my linux mint grub:

title Puppy Linux 5.8.7 full install
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda8 pmedia=atahd

I downloaded the iso again and started from scratch and same results as a before.

One thing I have not mentioned before is inside the universal installer when it comes to where they tell you there is an existing puppy install on the partition where I want to install i did not choose wipe. It always says that when it is not true when there is another full install puppy installed. I have just created the partition and formated it with gparted. I choose wipe last week installing precise puppy and it wiped out another partition where I had another puppy install but still installed puppy on the blank partition i just created. So after that i never choose wipe. For some reason it saw the other puppy install i wanted to keep and thought it was on the partition i wanted to install the new puppy. I have not had any issues after that in precise 5.7.1 by not choosing wipe.

[James C]

Just finished Dbanning a hard drive and installing Windows 7 so a fresh frugal of Slacko64 5.8.7.Looks good.
Did need to use nouveau.noaccel=1 .

# report-video
Report Video 1.3 - Sun 19 Jan 2014 on Slacko64 Puppy 5.8.7 - Linux 3.12.7 x86_64

Chip description:
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C68 [GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 630a] (rev a2)


X Server: Xorg Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.12.4
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (381x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes


...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
# glxgears
1472 frames in 5.0 seconds = 294.343 FPS
1736 frames in 5.0 seconds = 347.054 FPS
1767 frames in 5.0 seconds = 353.263 FPS
1771 frames in 5.0 seconds = 354.137 FPS
1794 frames in 5.0 seconds = 358.750 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Memory : 3797MB (415MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Slacko64 Puppy - 5.8.7
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sun 19 Jan 2014 03:43:40 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       3797012      1118388      2678624            0        79444
-/+ buffers:            1038944      2758068
Swap:      6246396            0      6246396
# 

[smokey01]

Hope that you are planning on adding a Wine capability so that some Windows 32 bit programs can run. I tried Fatdog's version which did not work.

I don't know if there is a wine pet or sfs for LHP but if there is it would be worth trying or maybe http://www.winehq.org/

[Ted Dog]

can the deltas be hosted outside of the torrents. I dl using cell phone and can't play with torrents. Also The downloads of iso s have been corrupted..

Have a good copy of v5.8.6 can someone host the deltas as files in its own directory.
Thanks.

[smokey01]

Ted Dog, I just made a delta file for 586 > 587. It's 45M. I guess there were a few changes.

[gcmartin]

@Smokey01/@Jim1911

In LightHouse64 (LH64), Wine is accomplished from an SFS on the Mariner version ISO which loads the SFS at boot-time.

But, in current form, Slacko64 seems to be aimed at a BASE functionality version, just as LH64 has a Base version.

Hope this helps

[zigbert]

first test of this one

Of course there are minor issues, but all in all it looks great.
I have troubles with getting sound. As in earlier Puppies, I have to use the multiple-souncard-wizard to choose my working card. But in this release there is no sound after setting up retrovol.

Only sound in pMusic when soundcard is set in the pMusic preferences. That could lead us to alsaequalizer as pMusic bypasses this when overriding the autosettings for alsa.

Now lets look at the output of pequalizer...

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# pequalizer 
Failed to load plugin "/usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so": /usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin "/usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so": /usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin "/usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so": /usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin "/usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so": /usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin "/usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so": /usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin "/usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so": /usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin "/usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so": /usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin "/usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so": /usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin "/usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so": /usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin "/usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so": /usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
EXIT="Exit on click close-box"

** (gtkdialog:10505): WARNING **: Invalid borders specified for theme pixmap:
        /usr/share/themes/ShallowThought/gtk-2.0/radio5.png,
borders don't fit within the image

** (gtkdialog:10505): WARNING **: Invalid borders specified for theme pixmap:
        /usr/share/themes/ShallowThought/gtk-2.0/radio4.png,
borders don't fit within the image
EXIT="abort"

That should tell something...


Sigmund

[smokey01]

Sigmund,

Try symlinking the /usr/lib64/ladspa directory to /usr/lib.

[01micko]

Sigmund,

Try symlinking the /usr/lib64/ladspa directory to /usr/lib.

There is still something wrong with those binaries though so I'm using a version I built in slackbones. Will be in the next.

[Ted Dog]

Ted Dog, I just made a delta file for 586 > 587. It's 45M. I guess there were a few changes.

thanks. I think either my phone provider has become suspect on the files .iso like Im downloading movies or something. The downloads get far along then never finish. burning up data plan as a result. I bet if we renamed it .apk like an android app it will load as quickly as the iso files used to. No problem with .pets sfs or deltas finishing.
I know they say Andriod apps are sandboxed but the sand used acts like unstable quicksand..

[Jades]

Slacko64

Just to be clear..

You need a 64 bit processor!

Would you believe, it turns out that the Pentium D is actually a 64-Bit processor! Seems happy enough running Win 7 Pro 64-Bit so I might as well give Slacko64 a shot.

[01micko]

Would you believe, it turns out that the Pentium D is actually a 64-Bit processor! Seems happy enough running Win 7 Pro 64-Bit so I might as well give Slacko64 a shot.

Wait a day or so... the next is almost due ..

[Ted Dog]

Would you believe, it turns out that the Pentium D is actually a 64-Bit processor! Seems happy enough running Win 7 Pro 64-Bit so I might as well give Slacko64 a shot.

Wait a day or so... the next is almost due ..

arggggghhh I havent even found the promised detllas for the last one...

[Jades]

Would you believe, it turns out that the Pentium D is actually a 64-Bit processor! Seems happy enough running Win 7 Pro 64-Bit so I might as well give Slacko64 a shot.

Wait a day or so... the next is almost due ..

If this was Mission4Today and you were talking about the next IL-2 patch, the release date is always "In two weeks."

[smokey01]

arggggghhh I havent even found the promised detllas for the last one...

http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/slacko6 ... .iso.delta

It's big, about 45M.